Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
Often it is the means that justify the ends: Goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
Alan J. Perlis
If it works, leave it alone — there's no need to understand it. If it fails, try to fix it — there's no time to understand it.
Bill Pfeifer
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
Alan J. Perlis
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
Alan J. Perlis
Tell me what you need and I'll tell you how to get along without it.
Anonymous
If you can build it, your users can break it.
Anonymous
We better hurry up and start coding, there are going to be a lot of bugs to fix.
Anonymous
Java is to JavaScript what Car is to Carpet.
Chris Heilmann
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
Hofstadter's Law
Anything that can go wrong will go wrong, anything that can't go wrong will go wrong anyway.
Anonymous